Old Lady of the Apex Crown

mel

on the Rust Hounds had turned the entire com

across the territory, but without my authorization co

my machine shop, sipping black coffee as I watche

rewery was idling diagonally across the main gate, its furious driver lea

refused to hook up the discharge hose, demanding twelve thousand dollars i

full-patch enforcers were violently shoving each other, thro

g to a catastrophic halt without my pri

ed violently

logged gate, spraying gravel over the brawling riders bef

ic younger sister, stepped out onto the dust

dbag swinging wildly, shrieking at the top of her lungs: "Carm

fee, set the tin cup on the windowsill, a

raising the steel security ga

hold, her face flushed with hysterical rage

psycho bitch?!" Elfie shrieked, pointin

ut with titanium brackets because of you, and the reception desk ju

charity for French's medical bills, you're w

to the parts storage bays!" Elfie demanded,

ive-thousand-dollar balance due on my custom Reno leather

hand, almost amused by the sheer, unhing

to my workshop and parts

now, you ungrateful cow, be

holding the master security keys to every tool chest, parts bin, and tita

ph, and she lunged forward to

ist two inches

allon steel drum sitting beside the door frame-filled to

L

ward, dotting Elfie's pristine, four-hundred-dolla

of the oil drum, then down at her ruined designer coat, before l

my silk jacket! What th

your sleeves and fish them out from the bo

start walking the highway truck stops, because you won't s

reamed, losing all sanity as she lunged at

te threshold, Garrison stepped ou

her leather collar, hoisted her entirely off her designer stilettos, and h

g open at the hip, her designer purse spilling expensive comp

ssive hand resting casually on t

ws, spitting dusty grit, black mascara streaming

Elfie shrieked hysterically, scrambling

e county with his armored convoy! When he convenes Church in one hour, he is going to str

the gear into reverse and tearing out the front gate

tching the red taillights

t my sides until my

in Har

r to secure his seat at the regional charter tab